Word Meanings - OVERPAMPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To pamper excessively; to feed or dress too much. Dryton.
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- PAMPERER
One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper. - DRESSINESS
The state of being dressy. - DRESS CIRCLE
A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn. - DRESSING
An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; - PAMPERO
A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. Sir W. Parish. - DRESSY
Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving. - PAMPER
1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight. 2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. - DRESS COAT
A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat. - DRESSMAKING
The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses. - DRESS
The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight. Dress circle. See under Circle. -- Dress parade , a parade in full uniform for review. (more info) 1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; - PAMPEROS
A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America. - DRESS GOODS
A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes. - DRESSER
A kind of pick for shaping large coal. 3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc. 4. Etym: A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. A cupboard or set of shelves to receive - PAMPERED
Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant. "Pampered boughs." Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope. -- Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - PAMPERIZE
To pamper. Sydney Smith. - DRESSMAKER
A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker. - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - REDRESSIVE
Tending to redress. Thomson. - ADDRESS
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more - TOP-DRESSING
The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied. - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness. - UNDERDRESSED
Not dresses enough. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - OVERDRESS
To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much. Pope. - REDRESSIBLE
Such as may be redressed. - HEADDRESS
1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or - WATER DRESSING
The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer. - MURDRESS
A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through. - HAIRDRESSER
One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.